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Following and followers

How following accounts and pages shapes your feed.

Following

When you follow an account or a Page:

  • Their public posts appear in your Following Feed.
  • Their Status updates appear in your Status bar at the top of the feed.
  • You may receive a notification when they post or interact with you (depending on your activity).

To follow someone, open their profile and tap Follow. Tap Following (or Unfollow) on the same button to unfollow.

Followers

Your followers are accounts that follow you. The count appears on your Profile under Followers, alongside Posts and Following.

Online status and last seen

Public shows when accounts are online with a small status indicator near their avatar in chats and headers, and last seen timestamps when they're offline. You can hide your own online status only by signing out — there is no privacy toggle for it today.

Suggestions

Public suggests people and pages to follow in:

  • The right sidebar on the web feed (People you may know, Pages to follow).
  • The Explore tab on Android.
  • The People screen.

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